GlocalMe - Numen Air - 5G

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When I was away in Belgium, my Vodafone account for some bizarre reason lost all its data services *. This, coupled to a flakey WiFi service on an otherwise excellent ‘holiday site’ left me all but blind.

Fellow UKGSer subscriber, Andy J, recommended a GlocalMe portable Wi-Fi hotspot dongle thing (I have no idea what they are properly called) which he has used with complete success. I bought one.

Even I, who wouldn’t know one end of a SIM card from another, found it easy to set-up, using the YouTube ‘Here is how to do it’ video. It seems to work well, booming in 5G and shareable by up to 16 devices, apparently.

It is neatly sized, weighs next to nothing and is nicely made. It has an in-house Cloud SIM (I thinks its called) but can take a third party SIM if you’d like it to. It is battery powered, the battery life being reported to be very good. It can also act as a power brick, to charge a phone.


* Vodafone have now mended this.
 
One tip / warning.

Whist the excellent device needs a prolonged push off the ‘on button’ to start it up, I found a possible problem.

I keep all my electrical kit in a bag. I put the bag into another overnight bag, where something pressed on the ‘on button’, turning the device on. I only noticed when I turned my phone on and wondered why it was connecting, not to my mother’s very fast WiFi, but to the Numen Air, which I’d been careful to turn off.

Take a little care when packing away!
 
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